While Their Parents Were Sleeping...

Patti Pavolko

Description

Kinley doesn’t like to go to bed. She doesn’t want to waste time or miss something exciting. Grammy and Kinley talk, Grammy doesn’t like to go to bed either. She understands completely. So they agree, at bedtime Kinley will say their special saying, shortly after that Grammy arrives in her shiny blue 4-wheeler. Each night they go on a different adventure where they meet two wood sprites, a hungry black bear, a frog named Felicity, two squirrels named George and Duncan and walk a Sparkling Gemstone Path. Follow along as Haylen and Wesson (Kinley’s sister and brother), join them in their adventures that take place in the family’s 80-acre woods.

Sujets

• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 22 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669842699
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Copyright © 2022 by Patti Pavolko. 815648

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced

or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or

mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any

information storage and retrieval system, without permission

in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and

incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination

or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual

persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely

coincidental.

Xlibris

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022915117

ISBN:

Softcover

978-1-6698-4267-5

Hardcover

978-1-6698-4268-2

EBook

978-1-6698-4269-9

Rev. date: 12/09/2022
Contents

Chapter 1 The Wood Sprites

Chapter 2 Black Beary Bear

Chapter 3 Felicity Frog

Chapter 4 Sparkling Gemstone Forest

Chapter 5 George and Duncan, the Squirrels

Chapter 6 The Tag-Alongs

Kinley and Grammy’s Saying

I will never leave you,

I will always take care of you,

And I will love you forever and ever . . .

No matter what.

Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my wonderful husband for supporting me throughout this project. Thank you to my daughter, Leslie, for helping me submit this book. Also, thank you, Abby—my daughter-in-law—for her beautiful illustrations and for making my book come alive. To my best friend, Tonya; without you, I never would have had the confidence to work past the first chapter. Thank you. And lastly, thank you to Kinley who was the inspiration for this book and who also helped Mommy color some of the pictures.

The Wood Sprites
Once there was a little girl whose name was Kinley. She was beautiful, intelligent, and caring. She had dark wavy hair that flowed down her back. Her eyes were huge and the color of milk chocolate. Her Grammy loved her with all her heart.

Whenever Kinley was sad or upset, Grammy

would say,

“I will never leave you,

I will always take care of you,

And I will love you forever and ever . . .

No matter what.”
Like Grammy, Kinley did not like to go to

bed. She had too much to do, books to read,

crafts to make, and she did not want to miss a

single adventure. What if she missed something

exciting while she was asleep?
At night, Mommy would help Kinley get ready for bed. She would go potty, brush her teeth with cinnamon-flavored toothpaste, and put on her favorite purple unicorn pajamas. Kinley and Mommy would say their prayers, remembering to ask God to bless Mommy, Daddy, and Kinley’s brother and sister, Wesson and Haylen. Then Mommy would sing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” to Kinley.

As soon as Mommy would leave the room, Kinley would get out of bed. She would look at some books, play with her stuffed animals (her horses were her favorites), and build a safari tent with the many quilts Grammy had made her.

Now Daddy would come in.
He was six feet tall and had lots of muscles. He could pick

Kinley up with one enormous hand. His eyes

twinkled whenever he looked at his little girls.

His beard was three colors—brown, red, and

white. His eyes twinkled when he talked to her.

Kinley thought Daddy could do anything.
Daddy would say,

Kinley, Mommy needs to go to sleep.

Daddy needs to go to sleep.

Go to sleep, Kinley!